THE PROBLEM CENTER

September 23, 2012

There are two doors in front of us when we have a problem or situation. One states: “PROBLEM CENTER”; the other says “SOLUTION CENTER”. If I open the ProblemCenter door, first I have to go through the “hall of mirrors” which only offers warped images of the “problem”. Then, when I cannot see the situation without distortion, I enter the main operational center. In there is a desk filled with paperwork, charts, graphs and I am sitting behind the desk, in charge. If I open the Solution Center, there in only one room, and on the desk there is only one Book and the Holy Spirit is sitting behind the desk with a pointer, pointing out the true problem and the true solution located in THE BOOK.

The center of our problems is in our minds. We take our thoughts to the “problem center” instead of the “solution center of the Word”. If we don’t change the “center” we remain in the problem. In the problem center, we decide: 1)What the problem is (filtered through all our human filters); 2. how it can or can’t be resolved (using all our human resources, based on our filters); and 3. then attempt to execute our human solution based on our own faulty thinking.

Just like in the story of the blind men each describing an elephant based solely on the part of the body they can feel, we see only what our filters allow us to see and then we barge ahead or quit based on that unreal realty.

The Bible teaches us how to enter the “Word Center”, and not the “Problem Center”. In 1 Cor. 13, we see that our human thinking is like a poor reflection in a mirror, that we know in part.

The Holy Spirit expects us to bring our problems to Him…He is the teacher and counselor who will lead us into all truth. (John 16) and He only speaks the Word.

Proverbs 14:1 says “The wise woman builds her house; the foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.”Before we became Christians, we used to be of the world, we used to operate solely in the human “ProblemCenter”; but now, we are no longer of this world, we’ve been bought with a price. Phil. 2:12b tells us to “work out our salvation in fear and trembling…” We are responsible to change our thinking so that lines up with the Word of God.